Good Housekeeping turns from cookery to post-natal nookie

 
5 June 2013

From Good Housekeeping to good sex. The magazine is getting into bed with erotica for the first time in its 128-year history, publishing Love and Passion, an ebook of titillating short stories by some of the country’s most popular female novelists.

EL James is nowhere to be seen but the collection does include a story from Amanda Craig, a writer loved for her romans à clef. Proving that she can do sex as well as satire, Craig chose an unusually domestic scenario — a husband’s seduction of his wife.

Her story is “about a woman who hates her post-baby body but comes to accept it through the patient and tender lovemaking of her husband in a weekend in Paris.

“Her breasts seemed to change shape, to become high and hard as apples, and he was pinching them up as he moved down, so she could feel his lips kiss her navel and then under her belly … He was prostrated between her legs, supplicant. With my body, I thee worship.” If only all husbands were inspired to such acts of devotion.

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